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Nowadays they mail .docx around, haven't seen a .doc in a long time. I'm a software dev on Linux and haven't even LibreOffice installed. I tell the sender to pl
by panzi 3y ago
Nowadays they mail .docx around, haven't seen a .doc in a long time. I'm a software dev on Linux and haven't even LibreOffice installed. I tell the sender to please send it to me as .pdf. I write docs in markdown on GitHub (the company I work for uses GitHub, make of it what you will).
- quesera 3y agoPDF is easy to read. It's a ridiculous document format for the purpose of internal sharing and reading, but it still works well for that purpose. But PDF is not really optimized for editing or collaboration, and the tools available on Linux especially are limited.
- bee_rider 3y agoI like PDFs when I trust them, but I’m always a bit wary receiving them from random people. Don’t they support embedded scripting? I’d like a format that is like PDF, but markup only.
- panzi 3y agoWell, my viewer doesn't support embedded scripting. :D